Easy Come, Easy Go * (1967, Elvis Presley, Dodie Marshall, Pat Priest) – Classic Movie Review 9302

Elvis Presley dives to the bottom of the barrel as a singing US Navy deep sea diver frogman called Ted Jackson, who thinks he has become incredibly rich when, joined by go-go dancer Jo Symington (Dodie Marshall), he finds sunken treasure in a Spanish wreck.

Director John Rich’s 1967 musical Easy Come, Easy Go is about as worthless as the gold Elvis uncovers.

As usual, Elvis’s character has a second career as a nightclub singer, so he can sing some songs.

Eight poor songs (‘Yoga Is as Yoga Does’, ‘The Love Machine’, ‘You Gotta Stop’, ‘Sing You Children’, ‘I’ll Take Love’, ‘She’s a Machine’, ‘Leave My Woman Alone’, ‘Easy Come, Easy Go’) complement a weak script. Presley seems tired and bored – and who can blame him? But stalwart performers Pat Harrington Jr, Skip Ward, Frank McHugh, Elsa Lanchester (as Madame Neherina) and Diki Lerner liven things up a bit.

It also features Pat Priest, Sandy Kenyon, Ed Griffith, Read Morgan, Mickey Elley, Elaine Beckett, Shari Nims, Robert Isenberg, and Kay York.

Presley duets with Elsa Lanchester on Yoga Is as Yoga Does!

The soundtrack was released on a 7in EP, selling fewer than 30,000 copies, Elvis’s worst selling record for RCA Victor.

Easy Come, Easy Go, is directed by John Rich, runs 95 minutes, is made by Wallis-Hazen, is released by Paramount, is written by Allan Weiss and Anthony Lawrence, is shot in Technicolor by William Margulies, is produced by Hal B Wallis and is scored by Joseph J Lilley.

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